Having a seven-foot reptile curled around her neck does not seem to faze Jaylene Johns. Instead, she rather enjoys the occasional neck massage her snake Thumbelina gives. But ask her to handle a frog and you might get a different reaction....

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Have you ever wondered how your dog came to have certain characteristics? Is your fur baby as nervous as you are, or just as energetic and outgoing? A new study from Michigan State University, that looked at both human and dog traits, has shown there is a definite correlation. For example, highly ...

For the first time, scientists have fully decoded the entire genome of the great white shark. What they've learnt could help with treating cancers and age-related diseases among humans. Guest: Dr Mahmood Shivji, director of the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey ...

When we bring a puppy into our homes, we usually have pretty grand ambitions for how the relationship is going to go. But what happens if the dog comes home and instead of the dream you imagined, you get a complete nightmare involving torn couches, complaining neighbours, a dug up backyard and one ...

The only individual to have won both the Nobel Prize and Ig Nobel Prize is Professor Sir Andre Geim from the University of Manchester. Professor Geim won the Nobel Prize for his work on the material graphene. But he was awarded the Ig Nobel for proving that giant, powerful magnets can float living ...

In October 2018 the UK Government hosted an international conference to help eradicate the illegal trade of wildlife in Africa and to discuss how to protect animals from the threat of extinction. It found that the cost of doing nothing was too great. That it 'significantly impacts African ...